Motivational Quotes

Government

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

- Gladstone, William E.

Best Quotes about Government

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard